Thanks. The fix hasn't been integrated into the 5.24 maint branch so any data we can have about it being battle tested is valuable.
Dominic. On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 05:04:10PM -0700, Dean Hamstead wrote: > We have been running it in prod since before the ticket was raised in > debian. We were hoping to pull compiling perl out of our pipeline. > > I would add again, that this is a fix from upstream and is included in all > newer versions of perl. > > > Dean > > On 2020-07-02 15:05, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 05:07:33PM -0700, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > My preference would be to apply the patch as its a genuine bug fix > > > from > > > upstream. > > > > Hi Dean > > > > Thanks for the reply. We do just have a chance to get it into the final > > stretch point release and we do have other changes queued for perl now. > > You implied in an earlier message that you'd been running a patched > > Debian package with https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16086 - can > > I check this is (still) the case? It'd give us a lot more confidence to > > know that the combination we'd plan to release has been battle tested. > > > > It's up to the stable release managers of course - I will email now. > > > > Cheers > > Dominic >
